• 📣 My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

• Why is it a bad thing to be dependent on LLMs?

• The three structural trends shaping the AI crisis in higher education

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s April Blogging

• What is AI criticism for?

• Claude’s Quarterly Review: Three Months of the Knowledge Infrastructure Experiment

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s February Blogging

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s January Blogging

• What does every academic need to know about generative AI?

• What happens when the AI bubble pops?

• GPT 5.2 is the first model where active positioning is counter-productive

• You can’t understand ‘AI slop’ without understanding engagement farming

• What I mean when I talk about ‘LLMs in the lifeworld’

• LLMs and a general ambivalence about platform capitalism

• A few thoughts about ChatGPT 5

• LLMs become more dangerous as they rapidly get easier to use

• Why generative AI guidance for students needs to be embedded in departments

• The gap between student GenAI use and the support students are offered

• The doom loops of generative AI

• A depressing fable about how ChatGPT is corroding trust in scholarship

• Black Pill Claude’s bleak vision of the coming future: the peaceful extinction of human agency

• A speculative genealogy of accelerationist perspectives

• How Claude is changing: five observations about Sonnet 3.7

• The embodied experience of writing

• Prompting as a literary practice

• How the GAI Assessment Debate Has Led Us in the Wrong Direction

• Academic writing has always been in flux

• Digital elites and reactionary modernism

• #FreeOurFeeds – help secure the future of social media

• 🎉 Generative AI for Academics is out next week

• Why am I so fascinated by the aesthetics of abandoned media?

• Claude Opus just suggested a collaborative research project to undertake with me

• Pioneering Sustainable EdTech Design: Insights from the MA DTCE

• 💻 Advance Your Career in Digital Education with the MA Digital Technologies Communication and Education

• The urgent need to understand scholarship as a process, prioritising ideas over outputs

• When technological innovation reduces productivity in the workplace

• Hey chatbot, are you an object of fantasy for your users?

• Techno-optimism as boomer dogma

• The slow destruction of ‘the immediacy of the written word’ as technology develops

• Do Artifacts Have Politics?

• Clive Lawson’s Technology & Isolation (ch 1-3)

• The missing skill of technological reflexivity

• To see the machine we need to dispense with the Weberian legacy on technology

• Techno-nationalism and technological innovation

• Putting agents, ethics and politics at the heart of our account of platform capitalism

• Getting beyond pro and anti in our thinking about technology

• What Happened? The end of modernisation

• The question of the human in philosophy of technology 

• The Technology of Intellectual Work

• Technology, regulation and disruption

• “Open, good. Closed, bad. Tattoo it on your forehead”: Placing the technology sector in social and economic history

• The Eschatology of Technology

• How universities shape the technology developed for them

• Varoufakis on contemporary capitalism’s preposterous reversal of the truth

• the sociology of executive coaching

• what if we talked of digital ‘weeds’ rather than ‘viruses’?

• algorithms, situated judgements and imposed patterns

• the recursive loop of technological metaphors for subjectivity

• images of the human in digital social science

• the two ontological orientations to technology prevalent within digital capitalism

• the politics of denying causal power to objects 

• the rituals of tech bros 

• mark zuckerberg: domination or revolution!

• innovation through appropriation

• the origins of digital capitalism 

• social engineers have never had so many options at their disposal

• An initial attempt to critique co-evolutionary approaches to understanding the socio-technical

• Who could object to a project that seeks to stop killer robots?

• The role of reflexivity in explaining rather than describing technological diffusion

• Technology and Human Nature

• Self-tracking and social control: what would techno-fascism look like?

• Why do people blame their iPads for the fact they can’t concentrate in meetings?

• Doing nothing for 2 minutes: mindfulness, hyperactivity and technology loops

• Heidegger on Thinking 1.2

• Why Sociologists and Technologists Should Talk

• Howard Becker, Blogging and Phenomenology

• Unpicking habitus and reflexivity: a case study of the stressed academic

• +1 for Efficient Labour: Gamification, Capitalism and Intellectual Responsibility

• A quick thought about Jiscmail…

• The problems facing a digital research culture amongst PhD students and how universities can solve them

• Some quick thoughts about sociological realism and digital life